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Get Your Mac Geek On With A Digital Bottle Of Launch Agents In Plisterine

OS X has plenty of Unix horsepower under the hood; built-in utilities that enhance the Mac’s power, but that don’t see much use from the average Mac user.

For example, take launch agents, those magical little behind-the-scenes files which can automate certain functions on your Mac. Most users never see them, but what they can do is pretty geeky if you know what to do.

Plists and launch agents can be a bit complex but Plisterine makes them easy to create. Start from the simple interface, add a launch agent name, choose where to save the launch agent, choose what the launch agent should do and when.

Scripts or apps can be launched at a specific time each day, or a specific time on a specific day, at login, when a change occurs to a folder (very handy), or have the launch agent launch scripts according to an action.

Plisterine costs less than $2 and the only negative I can see is that it’s on the Mac App Store. Apple uses a technique called Sandboxing which prohibits apps from the App Store from performing certain functions. Still, this is a good way to get your Mac geek on, get some automated routines going, and do it for very little money and effort.